Local Parks
Lecanto Florida offers a huge sports complex housed at the Central Ridge District Park offering three Baseball Fields, Concession Facilities, Jogging Trail, Pavilion, Picnic Tables, Playground, two Soccer Fields, and a Softball Field.
Crystal River is home to the only saltwater beach in Citrus County. Fort Island Beach on the Gulf of Mexico features a man made Beach, Boat Ramp, Fishing Pier, Pavilion, Barbecue Grills, Picnic Tables, Restrooms, and Showers. Hernando Beach Park features similar facilities, but on the fresh water lake of Lake Tsala Apopka.
The Crystal River Archaeological State Park is a National Historic Landmark. This 61-acre, pre-Columbian, Native American site has burial mounds, and temple platform mounds. The six-mound complex is one of the longest continuously occupied sites in Florida. For 1,600 years the site served as an imposing ceremonial center for Native Americans. People traveled to the complex from great distances to bury their dead and conduct trade. It is estimated that as many as 7,500 Native Americans may have visited the complex every year.
Closer to Sugarmill Woods, the nearby Homosassa Springs Recreation Park offers a Baseball Field, Basketball Court, Concession Facilities, Jogging Trail, Picnic Tables, Playground, six Soccer Fields, and two Tennis Courts.
Not far from Sugarmill Woods is its namesake the Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins Historic State Park. This site was once part of a thriving sugar plantation owned by David Levy Yulee. Yulee was a member of the Territorial Legislative Council, and served in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate after Florida statehood. The park contains the remnants of the once-thriving 5,100-acre sugar plantation: a forty-foot limestone masonry chimney, iron gears, and a cane press. The steam-driven mill operated from 1851 to 1864 and served as a supplier of sugar products for southern troops during the Civil War.
The Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge Complex consists of the Crystal River, Chassahowitzka, Egmont Key, Passage Key and the Pinellas National Wildlife Refuges. The Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge established in 1941, is comprised of over 31,000 acres of saltwater bays, estuaries and brackish marshes at the mouth of the Chassahowitzka River. The refuge was established primarily to protect waterfowl habitat and is home to over 250 species of birds, over 50 species of reptiles and amphibians, and at least 25 different species of mammals, including the endangered West Indian Manatee. Chassahowitzka is also home to a flock of endangered whooping cranes that make an annual migratory flight from Wisconsin to Florida with the help of an ultralight aircraft as leader. The annual fly over is a much anticipated event by local residents.
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